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1994 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1994 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges set up by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Fiction

Winner:

  • Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers

    • Other Finalists:

  • Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
  • Donna McFarlane, Division of Surgery
  • Alice Munro, Open Secrets
  • Russell Smith, How Insensitive

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room

    • Other Finalists:

  • Robin Blaser, The Holy Forest
  • Polly Fleck, The Chinese Execution
  • Monty Reid, Dog Sleeps

    • Drama

    Winner:

  • Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth

    • Other Finalists:

  • Joanna McClelland Glass, If We Are Women
  • Wendy Lill, All Fall Down
  • Bryden MacDonald, Whale Riding Weather

    • Non-Fiction

    Winner:

  • John A. Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication

    • Other Finalists:

  • Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature
  • Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children: Portrait of a Family
  • Joan Haggerty, The Invitation: A Memoir of Family Love and Reconciliation
  • Peter Larisey, Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life-An Interpretation

    • Children's Literature – Text

    Winner:

  • Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (Lester Publishing)

    • Other Finalists:

  • Sarah Ellis, Out of the Blue
  • Carol Matas, The Burning Time
  • Jim McGugan, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story
  • Ken Roberts, Past Tense

    • Children's Literature – Illustration

    Winner:

  • Murray Kimber, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story

    • Other Finalists:

  • Marie Lafrance, La Diablesse and the Baby
  • Michèle Lemieux, There Was An Old Man...: A Collection of Limericks
  • Laurie McGaw, Polar, the Titanic Bear
  • Martin Springett, Who

    • Translation (from French to English)

    Winner:

  • Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers

    • Other Finalists:

  • Patricia Claxton, Tchipayuk or The Way of the Wolf
  • Sheila Fischman, The Sound of Living Things
  • David Homel, An Aroma of Coffee
  • Shelley Tepperman, Playing Bare

    • Fiction

    Winner:

  • Robert Lalonde, Le petit aigle à tête blanche

    • Other Finalists:

  • Réjean Ducharme, Va savoir
  • Daniel Poliquin, L'Écureuil noir
  • Hélène Rioux, Pense à mon rendez-vous
  • Sylvain Trudel, Les Prophètes

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Fulvio Caccia, Aknos

    • Other Finalists:

  • Marcel Labine, Machines imaginaires
  • Rachel Leclerc, Rabatteurs d'étoiles
  • Paul Chanel Malenfant, Hommes de profil
  • Pierre Ouellet, Vita chiara, villa oscura

    • Drama

    Winner:

  • Michel Ouellette, French Town

    • Other Finalists:

  • Michelle Allen, Morgane
  • Yvan Bienvenue, Histoires à mourir d'amour
  • Claude Poissant, Si tu meurs, je te tue
  • Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Cinq études

    • Non-Fiction

    Winner:

  • Chantal Saint-Jarre, Du sida

    • Other Finalists:

  • Fernand Dumont, Genèse de la société québécoise
  • Jean Lamarre, Le devenir de la nation québécoise
  • Ginette Pelland, La peur des mots
  • Georges E. Sioui, Les Wendats : une civilisation méconnue

    • Children's Literature – Text

    Winner:

  • Suzanne Martel, Une belle journée pour mourir

    • Other Finalists:

  • Marie-Danielle Croteau, Un monde à la dérive
  • François Gravel, Klonk

    • Children's Literature – Illustration

    Winner:

  • Pierre Pratt, Mon chien est un éléphant

    • Other Finalists:

  • Sylvie Deronzier, Tartarin et le lion
  • Stéphane Poulin, Le parc aux sortilèges
  • Rémy Simard, Monsieur noir et blanc
  • Gilles Tibo, Simon et la plume perdue

    • Translation (from English to French)

    Winner:

  • Jude Des Chênes, Le mythe du sauvage

    • Other Finalists:

  • Claire Dupond and Hervé Juste, Les spécialistes des sciences sociales et la politique au Canada
  • Michèle Marineau, Au-delà des ténèbres
  • Normand Paiement and Hervé Juste, Les Géants des ordures
  • Daniel Poliquin, Le récit de voyage en Nouvelle – France de l'abbé peintre Hugues Pommier

    • References

    1994 Governor General's Awards Wikipedia
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